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Lions are not frightened by cats.

Proverb.

All cats are grey in the dark.

Proverb.

Our magistrates are well aware of this mystery. Their scarlet robes, the ermine in which they wrap themselves like furred cats, the halls in which they administer justice, the _fleurs-de-lis_, and all their august apparatus are most necessary; if the doctors had not their cassocks and their mules, if the lawyers had not their square caps, and their robes four times too wide, they would never have duped the world, which cannot resist so authoritative an appearance. Soldiers alone are not disguised after this fashion, because indeed their part is the more essential, they establish themselves by force, the others by fraud.

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?" Death thought about it "Cats," he said eventually, "Cats are Nice."

Terry Pratchett

In the night all cats are gray.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1616.     _Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii._

Books. Cats. Life is Good.

Edward Gorey

If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.

Lemony Snicket

Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,

Cassandra Clare

Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?

Oliver Herford

There is the general belief that the corporation income tax is a tax on the “rich” and on the “fat cats.” But with pension funds owning 30% of American large business—and soon to own 50%—the corporation income tax, in effect, eases the load on those in top income brackets and penalizes the beneficiaries of pension funds. [ The Wall Street Journal, September 16, 1975.]

Drucker, Peter.

the way cats lose bits of fur when you pet them thoroughly.

Erin Morgenstern

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Flatterers are cats that lick before, and scratch behind.

_Ger. Pr._

I will not name all its effects. Every one knows that the sight of cats, and rats, or the crushing of a coal, etc., may quite unhinge the reason. The tone of voice will affect the wisest and change the whole force of a speech or a poem.

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

Terry Pratchett

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

JONATHAN SWIFT. 1667-1745.     _Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii._

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Terry Pratchett

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

Benjamin Franklin

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

Albert Schweitzer

If you seek warmth of affection from a similar motive to that from which cats and dogs and slothful persons hug the fire, you are on the downward road.

_Thoreau._

In ev'ry age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.

JOHN GAY. 1688-1732.     _Fables. Part i. The Rat-catcher and Cats._

>Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Alfred North Whitehead

Thou hast described him king of animals, but I would rather say, king of beasts, thou being the greatest--for hast thou not slain them in order that they may give thee their children to glut thy greed with which thou hast striven to make a sepulchre for all animals? And I would say still more if I might speak the whole truth. But let us {47} confine ourselves to human matters, relating one supreme infamy, which is not to be found among the animals of the earth; because among these you will not find animals who eat their young, except when they are utterly foolish (and there are few indeed of such among them), and this occurs only among the beasts of prey, such as the lions, and leopards, panthers, lynxes, cats and the like, which sometimes feed on their young; but thou, besides thy children, dost devour thy father, thy mother, thy brother and thy friends; and not satisfied with this, thou goest forth to hunt on the islands of others, seizing other men and these half naked ... thou fattenest and chasest them down thy own throat. Now does not nature produce enough vegetables for thee to satisfy thyself? And if thou art not content with vegetables, canst thou not by a mixture of them make infinite compounds as Platina wrote, and other writers on food?

Leonardo da Vinci     Thoughts on Art and Life

Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives.

Unknown

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.

CATS of Zero Wing

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.

Christopher Hitchens

Jason looked down at her with smoldering eyes in a taciturn face. “You’ll have to do something about Mumbles before we come back for Thanksgiving, Gracie,” he told her quietly. “Kittie’s allergic to cats.

Diana Palmer

I remained silent and continued designing my Pyramid of Life. Dogs were at the top and I was at the base, but I hadn't figured out where to put cats.

John Twelve Hawks

Es sind so gute Katzen die Mause verjagen, als die sie fangen=--They are as good cats that chase away the mice as those that catch them.

_Ger. Pr._

All intelligent species own cats.

Fortune Cookie

There are many intelligent species in the universe, and they all own cats.

Fortune Cookie

The main problem I have with cats is, they're not dogs.

        -- Kevin Cowherd

Fortune Cookie

The difference between dogs and cats is that dogs come when they're

called.  Cats take a message and get back to you.

Fortune Cookie

The Great Movie Posters:

Different! Daring! Dynamic! Defying! Dumbfounding!

SEE Uncle Tom lead the Negroes to FREEDOM!

... Now, all the SENSUAL and VIOLENT passions Roots couldn't show on TV!

        -- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1972)

An appalling amalgam of carnage and carnality!

        -- Flesh and Blood Show (1973)

WHEN THE CATS ARE HUNGRY...

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Alone, only a harmless pet...

    One Thousand Strong, They Become a Man-Eating Machine!

        -- The Night of a Thousand Cats (1972)

They're Over-Exposed

But Not Under-Developed!

        -- Cover Girl Models (1976)

Fortune Cookie

Friends, Romans, Hipsters,

Let me clue you in;

I come to put down Caesar, not to groove him.

The square kicks some cats are on stay with them;

The hip bits, like, go down under;

so let it lay with Caesar.  The cool Brutus

Gave you the message: Caesar had big eyes;

If that's the sound, someone's copping a plea,

And, like, old Caesar really set them straight.

Here, copacetic with Brutus and the studs, --

for Brutus is a real cool cat;

So are they all, all cool cats, --

Come I to make this gig at Caesar's laying down.

Fortune Cookie

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

        -- Ben Franklin

Fortune Cookie

If you have received a letter inviting you to speak at the dedication of a

new cat hospital, and you hate cats, your reply, declining the invitation,

does not necessarily have to cover the full range of your emotions.  You must

make it clear that you will not attend, but you do not have to let fly at cats.

The writer of the letter asked a civil question; attack cats, then, only if

you can do so with good humor, good taste, and in such a way that your answer

will be courteous as well as responsive.  Since you are out of sympathy with

>cats, you may quite properly give this as a reason for not appearing at the

dedication ceremonies of a cat hospital.  But bear in mind that your opinion

of cats was not sought, only your services as a speaker.  Try to keep things

straight.

        -- Strunk and White, "The Elements of Style"

Fortune Cookie

>Cats are smarter than dogs.  You can't make eight cats pull a sled through

the snow.

Fortune Cookie

I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes.  They had little pictures of cats</p>

on them.  Then I took one out and he ran around in circles.

        -- Steven Wright

Fortune Cookie

All of the people in my building are insane.  The guy above me designs

synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats.  The lady across the hall tried to

rob a department store... with a pricing gun...  She said, "Give me all

of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store."

        -- Steven Wright

Fortune Cookie

>Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind.

Fortune Cookie

<Knghtbrd> joeyh now has a terminal at the couch?

<Knghtbrd> That guy is wired, I swear  =>

<doogie> Knghtbrd: laptop

<doogie> and I don't mean the cats.

Fortune Cookie

Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives.

Fortune Cookie

Put cats in the coffee and mice in the tea!

Fortune Cookie

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial

challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.

        -- The Washington Post Magazine, 9 June, 1985

Fortune Cookie

Everyone *knows* cats are on a higher level of existence.  These silly humans

are just to big-headed to admit their inferiority.

    Just think what a nicer world this would be if it were controlled by

>cats.

    You wouldn't see cats having waste disposal problems.

    They're neat.

    They don't have sexual hangups.  A cat gets horny, it does something

about it.

    They keep reasonable hours.  You *never* see a cat up before noon.

    They know how to relax.  Ever heard of a cat with an ulcer?

    What are the chances of a cat starting a nuclear war?  Pretty neglible.

It's not that they can't, they just know that there are much better things to

do with ones time.  Like lie in the sun and sleep.  Or go exploring the world.

Fortune Cookie

Ever since I was a young boy,

I've hacked the ARPA net,

From Berkeley down to Rutgers,        He's on my favorite terminal,

Any access I could get,            He cats C right into foo,

But ain't seen nothing like him,    His disciples lead him in,

On any campus yet,            And he just breaks the root,

That deaf, dumb, and blind kid,        Always has full SYS-PRIV's,

Sure sends a mean packet.        Never uses lint,

                    That deaf, dumb, and blind kid,

                    Sure sends a mean packet.

He's a UNIX wizard,

There has to be a twist.

The UNIX wizard's got            Ain't got no distractions,

Unlimited space on disk.        Can't hear no whistles or bells,

How do you think he does it?        Can't see no message flashing,

I don't know.                Types by sense of smell,

What makes him so good?            Those crazy little programs,

                    The proper bit flags set,

                    That deaf, dumb, and blind kid,

                    Sure sends a mean packet.

        -- UNIX Wizard

Fortune Cookie

 VII. Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel

      entrances; others cannot.

    This trompe l'oeil inconsistency has baffled generations, but at least

    it is known that whoever paints an entrance on a wall's surface to

    trick an opponent will be unable to pursue him into this theoretical

    space.  The painter is flattened against the wall when he attempts to

    follow into the painting.  This is ultimately a problem of art, not

    of science.

VIII. Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent.

    Cartoon cats possess even more deaths than the traditional nine lives

    might comfortably afford.  They can be decimated, spliced, splayed,

    accordion-pleated, spindled, or disassembled, but they cannot be

    destroyed.  After a few moments of blinking self pity, they reinflate,

    elongate, snap back, or solidify.

  IX. For every vengeance there is an equal and opposite revengeance.

    This is the one law of animated cartoon motion that also applies to

    the physical world at large.  For that reason, we need the relief of

    watching it happen to a duck instead.

   X. Everything falls faster than an anvil.

    Examples too numerous to mention from the Roadrunner cartoons.

        -- Esquire, "O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion", June 1980

Fortune Cookie

Fights between cats and dogs are prohibited by statute in Barber, North

Carolina.

Fortune Cookie

Children are like cats, they can tell when you don't like them.  That's

when they come over and violate your body space.

Fortune Cookie

Cecil, you're my final hope

Of finding out the true Straight Dope

For I have been reading of Schrodinger's cat

But none of my cats are at all like that.

This unusual animal (so it is said)

Is simultaneously alive and dead!

What I don't understand is just why he

Can't be one or the other, unquestionably.

My future now hangs in between eigenstates.

In one I'm enlightened, in the other I ain't.

If *you* understand, Cecil, then show me the way

And rescue my psyche from quantum decay.

But if this queer thing has perplexed even you,

Then I will *___and* I won't see you in Schrodinger's zoo.

        -- Randy F., Chicago, "The Straight Dope, a compendium

           of human knowledge" by Cecil Adams

Fortune Cookie

Q:    Why don't lawyers go to the beach?

A:    The cats keep trying to bury them.

Fortune Cookie

>Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

        -- Garrison Keillor

Fortune Cookie

FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN:    #8

Going Out:

    When a man says he is ready to go out, it means he is ready to go

out.  When a woman says she is ready to go out, it means she WILL be ready

to go out, as soon as she finds her earring, finishes putting on her makeup,

checks on the kids, makes a phone call to her best friend...

>Cats:

    Women love cats.  Men say they love cats, but when women aren't

looking, men kick cats.

Offspring:

    Ah, children.  A woman knows all about her children.  She knows

about dentist appointments and soccer games and romances and best friends

and favorite foods and secret fears and hopes and dreams.  Men are vaguely

aware of some short people living in the house.

Fortune Cookie

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

_Swift._

London is not a city, London is a person. Tower Bridge talks to you; National Gallery reads a poem for you; Hyde Park dances with you; Palace of Westminster plays the piano; Big Ben and St Paul’s Cathedral sing an opera! London is not a city; it is a talented artist who is ready to contact with you directly!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Why is there so much suffering in this world? I cannot think it improves us much, and yet it must have its purpose. All these are questions far too high for us--we are like children, and more than children, when we come to think of them. All we know is that where we catch a glimpse of God's handiwork, either in the natural or moral world, it is so wonderfully perfect, so beyond all our measures, that we feel safe as in a good ship, however rough the sea may be. Whatever we may believe, or hope, or wish for, will be far exceeded by that Higher Will and Wisdom which supports all, even us little souls.

Friedrich Max Müller     Thoughts on Life and Religion

"Well, den, I reck'n I did dream it, Huck; but dog my cats ef it ain't de powerfullest dream I ever see. En I hain't ever had no dream b'fo' dat's tired me like dis one."

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)     Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

>Cato contra mundum=--Cato against the world.

Unknown

Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral.

Ingmar Bergman

Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 1564-1616.     _Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1._

"Oh, Tom, they can see in the dark, same as cats. I wisht I hadn't come."

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)     The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Il faut perdre un veron pour pecher un saumon=--We must lose a minnow to catch a salmon.

_Fr. Pr._

The real Nimrod of this era, who alone does any good to the era, is the rat-catcher.

_Carlyle._

Narratur et prisci Catonis / S?pe mero caluisse virtus=--It is said that the virtue even of the elder Cato was often warmed by wine.

Horace.

'T was whisper'd in heaven, 't was mutter'd in hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; On the confines of earth 't was permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confess'd.

CATHERINE M. FANSHAWE (1764-1834): _Enigma. The letter H._

He said that in his whole life he most repented of three things: one was that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another, that he went by water when he might have gone by land; the third, that he had remained one whole day without doing any business of moment.

PLUTARCH. 46(?)-120(?) A. D.     _Life of Marcus Cato._

Thy nature / It is too full of the milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way.

_Macb._, i. 5.

Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius.

LORD BYRON 1788-1824.     _Don Juan. Canto vi. Stanza 7._

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells (born 21 September 1866

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Isaac Asimov

A hook's well lost to catch a salmon.

Proverb.

Sickness is catching; Oh, were favour so, / Yours would I catch, sweet Hernia, ere I go; / My ear would catch your voice, my eye your eye, / My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.

_Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.

The cat shuts its eyes when stealing the cream.

Proverb.

Thus if there were division in the Church, and the Arians, for example, who no less than Catholics said they were founded on Scripture, had worked miracles, and the Catholics had worked none, men had been led into error.

Blaise Pascal     The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

The worship of the nation has been able to make men tolerate under its authority what they could never have tolerated from princes: a submission to rule, which, through sumptuary laws on food and drink, through conscription, through a cast-iron system of compulsory instruction for all on State ordered lines, and through a State examination at the gate of every profession, has almost killed the citizen’s power to react upon that which controls him, and has almost destroyed that variety which is the mark of life. [ Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church . Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1992, p. 84.]

Belloc, Hilaire.

Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in education, of State medicine and the rest, is developing into the slave, leaving the rich man apart and free. All industrial civilization is clearly moving towards the re-establishment of the Servile State,… [“The Faith and Capitalism,” Essays of a Catholic . Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1992, p. 226.]

Belloc, Hilaire.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is 'mere'. I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern — of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it.

Richard Feynman (born 11 May 1918

Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.

Marilyn Monroe

Looking where others looked, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them.

_Emerson._

Many are idly busy. Domitian was busy, but then it was catching flies.

_Jeremy Taylor._

To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.

Theodore Zeldin

"With molasses you catch flies, with vinegar you catch nobody."

Baltimore City Councilman Dominic DiPietro

In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper. Most such men are stupid, compared with what we expect of them, but they are not stupider than the run of men; it is only the contrast between what they are and what we expected to find in them which makes us emphasize their very normal and average lack of parts. [“Science as the Enemy of Truth,” Essays of a Catholic . Rockford, Illinois: Tan Books and Publishers, Inc., 1992, p. 170.]

Belloc, Hilaire.

"In that direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: and in that direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad." "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."

Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Evil is often more hurtful to the doer than to the one against whom it is done.--ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA.

Various     Thoughts and Counsels of the Saints for Every Day of the Year

To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round. Surely our innocent pleasures are not so abundant in this life that we can afford to despise this or any other source of them. We should fear being banished for our neglect to that limbo where the great Florentine tells us are those who, during this life, "wept when they might be joyful."

T. H. Huxley     Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley

>Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.

FRANCIS BACON. 1561-1626.     _Apothegms. No. 247._

"Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn' hear sumf'n. Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it agin."

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)     Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings, while incense is ever flowing from the balsam bells and leaves. No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples, and the more they are cut down and hewn into cathedrals and churches, the farther off and dimmer seems the Lord himself.

John Muir

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